Translation Services Company Profile

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1 Translation Services Company Profile

2 ABOUT THE COMPANY Orient Translation Services is a single language vendor founded at the beginning of 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. The company also offers DTP and voice-over services as well as localization and translation services from English, German, French and other languages into Turkish. Orient Translation Services has been entitled to receive ISO 9001:2008 certificate in May 2009, having qualified itself in accordance with the strict requirements of the ISO standard. Orient Translation Services is a member of GALA (Globalization and Localization Association). Since its establishment, Orient Translation Services has been working with growing numbers of loyal clients including its first clients. Thanks to meeting client expectations, Orient Translation Services has increased its working capacity and now provides services to over 40 multi-language vendors (MLVs). Besides multi-language vendors, Orient Translation Services also provides services for local companies that are exporting products across foreign markets. In order to fulfill the demands of its clients, Orient Translation Services provides a team compiled of translators, proofreaders and DTP experts who strive to ensure consistency and preserve the integrity of the original text's meaning and intent. As Orient Translation Services has already experienced, the translation and localization industry in Turkey is expected to expand along with Turkey's and the surrounding region's deeper integration into the world market. While being aware of the growing expectations and everaccelerating business flow, Orient Translation Services constantly updates and upgrades its technological infrastructure and human resources with detailed HR management procedures and innovative technology applications.

3 STAFF Under the organization of Orient Translation Services, there are both internal and external resources, depending on the specific requirements of each project. All technical and project management tasks and most of the editing tasks are performed internally, and independent professionals are employed for outsourcing certain linguistic tasks. All translations are done by native speakers, who are experts in their field. Orient's inhouse team of 18 highly qualified professionals, composed of project managers, software engineers, linguists and DTP specialists, is to complete the projects, ensuring compliance with deadlines and each client's quality requirements. We work with over 40 previously tested independent professionals. In order to qualify as an Orient linguist, candidates must hold higher education degrees and demonstrate extensive professional experience in their subject of expertise. In addition, they must successfully pass our internal testing, which involves semantics accuracy, a perfect command of grammatical and typographical rules, stylistic elegance, and adaptation to the target audience. Managing Director Project Manager In-house Translator/Editor Desktop Publishing Team Freelance Translators years of experience 5 and 10 years of experience 3 to 10 years of translation experience 2 to 5 years of DTP experience Expert in his/her field with at least 3 years of experience

4 SERVICES TRANSLATION Orient Translation Services provides high-quality translation from/into Turkish with a professional team specialized in various fields. We offer translations for customers in different industries and meet the specific requirements of our clients. We provide services for customers in IT, electronics, automotive, health, engineering, banking and finance industries. In order to assure high quality we provide TEP (Translation, Editing, Proofreading) services. At Orient, we utilize various CAT tools and in particular SDL Trados. These CAT tools are used in the translation process in order to deliver the highest quality translations as well as consistent terminology throughout your multilingual marketing materials, product literature, technical sheets and other documentation. LOCALIZATION Localization is culturally sensitive adaptation of a hardware, software or a complete web site - a product in other words- to target language in accordance with project requirements. Orient offers you a problem-free delivery of localized and tested source texts in various formats including, but not limited to printed and electronic user's guides, xml files etc. LOCALIZATION TEST Localization test is a process to ensure supervision/control of test accuracy of the localized product. Orient applies a test to verify the localized product, or to enable compatibility of the software/hardware with the media it is used in, upon customer demand. Testing process includes preparation of an error report and correction of these errors. DESKTOP PUBLISHING (DTP) The translation and localization processes often include several other important steps to produce the final document. We handle a wide variety of file formats such as MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel or InDesign, QuarkXPress, FrameMaker, SGML, HTML, XML, etc. We solve layout-related issues (text expansion, graphical content etc.) to create a document that is ready to print.

5 FIELDS OF EXPERTISE COMPUTERS ENGINEERING MEDICAL LAW FINANCIAL SCIENCE AUTOMOTIVE General, Software, Hardware, Systems, Networks; General, Chemistry, Civil, Construction, Electrical, Electronics, Industrial, Mechanical, Nuclear; General, Medical Equipments, Cardiology, Dentistry, Health Care, Instruments, Pharmaceuticals; General, Contracts, Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Taxation & Customs; General, Accounting, Audit, Banking, Business, Commerce, e-commerce, Finance; Biology, Geology, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics; Cars and Trucks; IT (Information Technology); TELECOMMUNICATIONS; MACHINERY / TOOLS; TEXTILES / CLOTHING / FASHION; INVESTMENT / SECURITIES; MARKETING /ADVERTISING / PUBLIC RELATIONS; ART/LITERARY; SOCIAL SCIENCES; VIDEO GAMES / GAMING / CASINO

6 SOFTWARE PLATFORM TRANSLATION MEMORY TOOLS SDL Trados 2007 SDL MultiTerm Wordfast Translation Studio Across 4.0 SDL Trados Studio 2009 Star Transit NXT Atril DejaVu 7 Microsoft Helium LOCALIZATION AND TESTING TOOLS Alchemy Catalyst 9.0 Microsoft LocStudio Multilizer 2011 SDL Passolo 2009 ApSIC Xbench ApSIC Comparator WORD PROCESSING AND DTP TOOLS ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition PowerPoint 2007 Adobe Acrobat Pro Adobe PageMaker Adobe FrameMaker Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Projetex 8.0

7 TRANSLATION PROJECT WORKFLOW Orient's localization/translation projects undergo a multi-layered process of checks and reviews in order to ensure the highest degree of quality. Below, the steps have been designed to provide our clients with value-added service. Following steps may vary according to scope and the requirements of a project. PLANNING THE PROJECT - Defining the scope, goals and objectives of the project - Defining the tasks within the scope of the project and if required breaking down the project down into component parts - Defining the standards of the project - Creating the project schedule - Defining risks and contingency plans - Determining the software/tool requirements of the project PREPARING THE LOCALIZATION KIT - Preparing the project specific instructions - Preparing project glossary - Preparing project style guide - Preparing the project files for localization CREATING THE PROJECT TEAM - Assigning the resources to the project - Delivering the localization kit to the project team PRODUCTION - File localization - Technical and linguistic editing - QA - Implementing the feedback from QA - Compilation / DTP of reviewed files - Testing / Visual QA of compiled Files after DTP - Debugging DELIVERY When production process is completed, all files that are associated with the project are delivered. The project is completed after receiving positive feedback from the client.

8 QUALITY ASSURANCE At Orient Translation Services, Quality Assurance is the process of determining the quality level of the localized files and it is performed with a model that is based on LISA QA model. The objective of this process is to identify if the localized files have met client's and internal standards and most importantly to monitor competences of the localization team. VISUAL QUALITY ASSURANCE In order to assure that the target reflects the quality of the source materials, it is important to verify linguistic quality and the integrity of the localized content. Following steps apply for website, documentation, or software localization. - Verifying the completion of the translation - Verifying the integrity of the localized material - Verifying the typography - Verifying the page flow FUNCTIONALITY QUALITY ASSURANCE In order to check if the functionality and the output feature of the localized product reflects the source, it is imperative to test the quality of the intended functionality of the localized product. The functionality quality assurance process differs between software, documentation and web. Typical functionality quality assurance process inspects: - Compatibility with respective applications, platforms and hardware - Functioning hyperlinks and references - Correct output such as printing, data format and publishing standards - Correct use of regional conventions of date/time, number and currency formats - Hotkey and shortcut functionality - Truncations of strings

9 HEADQUARTERS : Orient Translation Services, Kofluyolu Mah. Cenap fiahabettin Sk. No. 97/2, 34718, Kad köy; stanbul, Turkey TELEPHONE FAX WEB SITE : : : [email protected] :